Carbon Neutrality

HARBEC’s goal to become Carbon Neutral was bold, proactive, and deliberate. HARBEC believes that Carbon Neutrality can be achieved by any business. Although it has taken years of effort, HARBEC’s accomplishment has yielded additional opportunities to continuously improve its energy and carbon performance.Because Carbon Neutrality was such a significant goal to pursue, HARBEC chose to adopt the energy management standard ISO 50001, and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Superior Energy Performance (SEP) process to ensure that a procedure and verifiable method for measuring, monitoring, and calculating energy use, efficiency, and savings is done consistently over time. HARBEC has also adopted a third party carbon footprint validation process which is conducted through annual audits.As a result of ISO 50001/SEP HARBEC has been able to estimate its energy baseline, account for its energy utilization, and dramatically improve its energy performance due to significant energy efficiency and resource utilization improvements.Adopting proactive energy measurement and management systems including ISO 50001/SEP Platinum provided the sustainable manufacturing path HARBEC was searching for, and the opportunity to reduce the amount of energy per widget forever. Our goal is to eventually meter and report every electrical event in the company and input it to our ERP system. A case study by the Clean Energy Ministerial summarizes HARBEC’s experience to improve energy performance while earning Platinum certification in SEP. HARBEC’s carbon neutrality achievement was accomplished through a deliberate energy and carbon accounting process which included:

using an Eco-Economic decision analysis to implement high-value energy efficiency, on-site renewable, and combined heat and power (CHP) energy technologies

monitoring energy use with energy management software and systems

establishing short, mid, and long-term energy goals

measuring and verifying energy reductions

purchasing emissions offsets if needed, to account for any differential between what HARBEC was able to achieve in carbon reductions and the balance to achieve carbon neutrality.

HARBEC’s energy and carbon accounting process has been made possible by its relationship with DEKRA, a global and independent certification organization. In 2013 DEKRA certified HARBEC to the ISO 50001/SEP “Platinum” certification. DEKRA’s collaboration with HARBEC has been instrumental toward understanding the energy and carbon baseline of HARBEC’s 50,000 square foot facility in Ontario, NY, and further, to help achieve carbon neutrality through energy management, monitoring and assessment; and continuous improvement on energy and carbon goals. HARBEC’s carbon neutrality is comprised of several integrated objectives:

Measuring and monitoring energy use throughout its facility

Achieving optimization in the use of energy resources

Establishing energy reduction targets and proactively pursuing them through eco-economic energy efficiency and management measures and solutions throughout HARBEC’s manufacturing processes and facility

The Aviation Industry is highly regulated with demands and controls that ensure the safety and reliability of equipment and materials. Our aviation, space and defense customers can be confident that Harbec retains a certified Quality Management System which is well implemented and designed to deliver increased customer satisfaction as a natural by-product of tracking key quality goals of on-time delivery and compliant product to our customers. Our processes are monitored to improve efficiency, ensure product safety and reliability while continually improving.

The Medical Industry is highly regulated with demands and controls that ensure regulatory requirements and customer expectations are met. Our medical device customers can be confident that Harbec retains a certified Quality Management System which is well implemented and designed to deliver increased customer satisfaction as a natural by-product of tracking key quality goals of on-time delivery and compliant product to our customers. Our ISO 13485 management system adopts a risk management approach which, while having these controls in place, eliminates hazardous situations throughout the product realization process.

Harbec is a registered ITAR company. International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) is a set of United States Government regulations on the export and import of defense related articles and services. Our Defense and Military customers can have complete confidence that Harbec Inc. has an established and implemented ITAR compliance program and adhere to the strict guidelines set forth by ITAR and EAR statutes.